Katherine Heartsong

Laugh if you like, but catching bits of this ...

As an Apple user since owning an Apple II (yes, that old am I) I'm sadly with @Modulated. Except for those brief moments I need my male alt on transferring me his 300L weekly stipend, I don't run SL on any of my Macs. That <10fps at Muddy's I see is 40+ for me on my gaming PC, with Ultra settings, even more avatars on screen, and a longer draw distance. As much as a Mac fanboi I am, I'd never suggest running SL on macOS. But thanks for posting that for folks to reference and decide. (That low fps might have been partly due to you running the video capture software though I admit, now thinking about it.)

I'm glad most sim owners do abide by both the rules as written and the spirit (ethics) of the rules. It's the obvious ones who are deliberately ignoring the rules or who are pushing the boundary very very hard by deliberately designing and promoting their sim to be attractive to certain types of users and turn a blind eye to the obvious problems that creates. Sure, a blatant violation might get a user banned, but if the overall vibe and theme is attracting traffic, they don't seem to mind. Again, it'd take anyone two minutes to find and visit some of these well-known sims and groups if you wanted to see exactly what I'm talking about. Pre- and young teen looking waify female avatars in skimpy or kids clothes, along with all of the other attributes I've previously mentioned, on sims dancing and engaging with older guys in suits, what does anyone think that adds up to? They're not there to have a picnic.

Correct. And to state the obvious ... It's not avatars who are barely in their teens that is the underlying main problem. It's that, plus a slew of other factors when taken together move it out of RPing a non-adult to something far less benign. If you can't see when things start to coalesce along the lines of younger appearing avatars plus sim theme, specific dress styles and hairstyles, behaviours, residents (often older men) who hang around these sims to meet these avatars, racier chats, names of sims etc, then you're being naive or deliberately ignoring the obvious. These places are so easy to find I can't believe anyone who has been here any length of time isn't well aware of them.

Given many decades in the corporate world, I'll lean towards this as well. This kind of reply isn't something someone on their own can just write up off the cuff and post. C-level people never do that. There will be layers of proofing, editing, and the longer process of legal review and vetting by other C-level people and a legal/business and communications team before a response like this gets to be released. I'll assume a lot of the "delay" was due to bureaucracy (and looking into the facts) rather than ill-intent.

Not sure they're low enough but both Bumblebee and Friday have lower-waisted jeans that look really nice.

I haven't been in this world long, but sure long enough to know that there are some pretty slippery and dark places here, and not-hiding-at-all places anyone with two minutes of time and certain keywords could TP to that skirt the edge of whatever sword that blog post was discussing (ahem) very very closely. Spend five minutes in a few of the obvious ones and it's a no-brainer that the spirit of the rules are being broken, if not in practice. If LL really wanted to police that side of SL better, it shouldn't be hard finding the places to start and at least start explaining to the owners of said sims that skirting the edge as close as some of these places do is not going to be tolerated to the degree it has in the past. If I can find the obvious ones, surely anyone can. But I am glad that at least LL has acknowledged the kurfuffle publicly, even if weeks past when the blog was originally posted, and very quickly after being more widely disseminated. Let's see where all this lands as the mature adults we all are supposed to be (or cat, since I am a cat IRL).

Do you mean she has a Premium Plus membership with the associated 2048 land tier available to her? Her options are either to log in and go to her Dashboard and select one of the 2048 homes available through the "Get Your Own Home Now" option and that will give her a "free" 2048 plot and one of the Linden homes for that theme area. That will mean she won't have to worry about bad or ugly build next to hers but the downside is a uniform sub urban feel with only 8–9 styles of home to pick from. Her PP subscription pays for that land; sort of like renting a 2048 from Linden as part of your annual PP subscription. Or she can buy a 2048 parcel from another resident somewhere on mainland and then buy a home from one of the many home sellers in world like Scarlet Creative or Trompe et al that will fit on the parcel (hopefully a 32x64 rectangle), rezz that, and decorate, landscape etc. That gives you more freedom of style, but means you have neighbours whose house looks you can't control and the better parcels can be expensive. Or browse through the mainland for sale forum ... https://community.secondlife.com/forums/forum/286-mainland/ For example, here's a cute one for sale at a good price ... From the title of the post she seems to want mainland, so my suggestion is to simply open Map on your in world viewer and move around the continents looking at the yellow "for sale" lots (32x64 are easy to spot) with their prices indicated, and TP to one's she likes to check them out until she finds one she likes. If it "looks" like it's on water though and she wants to explore sailing/boating, be very sure to go there and hover just above the water and fly in all directions slowly to make sure no one has put up ban lines blocking deep water access by boat.

Somehow missed this to participate, oh wells.

That works too.

I prefer Sand.

Can't you just drag drop multiple objects into the MP listing you create in world (e.g., Bush A, Bush B, Bush C etc) and then add a script to the object to deliver them or just appear when user buys it in the MP? I put two painting in one for sale object once and it worked fine, but I can remember if I added a script or not.

Excluding TWI cat, deer, etc ... I've been a Maitreya girl since day one. Only change has been to adopt LaraX full time very quickly after it's release. So, still Maitreya.

"Hi. My name is Eliza. Tell me about your day."

Or made new displays at the front of the store or a dedicated LaraX section to show off what's new or updated. Agreed. Sadly Facebook is no help to me at all (social media in general, in fact).

Also, LL taking away the ability to create sub-folders in your Inventory's Outfit directory which affected all 3rd party browsers as well doesn't help with organization either. For those of us who like sub-sub-sub folders to micro-manage our Outfits, that was (and remains) extremely annoying.

It's a personal opinion but yes, I'm still finding a number of my favourite stores being very slow releasing anything new for LaraX. It's coming in trickles, but I'm still waiting to see much more from places like fashionably dead, Just Because (update gowns please!!!), amias, Mimikri, 1313, and the lack of a lot of elegant lingerie? I'm seeing a lot of skimpier styles (sure, good, whatever) for LaraX but I have enough "show off your belly/booty" stuff now (I can't go to any event without seeing club wear for LaraX these days, but let's get other stuff released. Annoying. That said, I've found new places that have picked up the gauntlet and in styles I like and I'm 100% supporting those. Friday (for casual), and everything Harry at ISON is releasing is an instant buy for me.

Simply order one from Linden Labs directly. Your monthly cost for a 20K sim is $209 and I think it's $249 for the 30K. The initial setup fee is $349 but that includes your first ($249) month. You can then tell them what rating you want etc. Buying them from other residents involves paying LL a transfer fee, and unless the other person is willing to just give it to you and take over the payment, you'll most likely find it's cheaper buying it from LL.

Oooooo ... that kind of friend ... got ya ... nudge nudge wink wink.

Oooo, this one so much. I adore one of the DJs in a formal dance venue but they spam their friends list almost daily announcing their club times. That why I have group notices turned off for that place. Urgh, stop using your friends list like a subscription group. True! And if the hoomans see you taking what's rightfully yours, you can kill them in their sleep later, so all good

Was coming to say what @Rowan Amore mentioned. Use the Favourite Wearables and Custom AO feature in Firestorm. There's no need for dancing or walking HUDs for AOs ever in SL IMHO if you use FS. Only time I ever have a HUD up for a minute or two only is when changing clothes in case what I'm wearing is a fat pack with colours, the "what is she wearing" HUD when I want to examine someone else's wardrobe, or the v3 hug & kiss HUD to hug someone. Then they get promptly turned off. Other than that, never HUDs especially AO ones. (Actually, when I am in my cat avatar from TWI I have that HUD up always so I can stretch, meow, sleep, etc because of all the custom animations and expressions.)

Agreed. That's why I used the word "approved". I'm imagining that certain builders would submit house designs that fit theme XYZ to LL for inclusion, and LL could judge based on LI, LOD, aesthetics etc which handful to allow to be part of the parcel's house list, and reject the others. Even 3–4 outside home designers whose names I have mentioned would help the bland LL looks that exist currently.

I'd pack up and move to Belli or a Mainland 2.0 in a second with my PP account (and my male alt's P account) if two things happened. First, the homes LL offered on them could include at least a handful of other approved builders because compared to Scarlet Creative and Trompe, I think LL home designs are dreadfully boring and not good looking. And second, LL offered Belli commercial zones where what you rendered was a storefront/shop and not a residential home. Create shopping districts to wander around in. Then again, apply point one. I'm uncertain that LL could design a range of decent looking commercial buildings that would compete well with most other architecture/builders here, so the first point applies to this as well. (Honestly, if I could put together another $50/month? I'd most like just do the Homestead thing with my PP account.)

Glad it's worked out for you @Wesley Spengler and welcome back. This whole thing would be solved by a more robust character/avatar creation editor (which would then require SL to have a better clothing system), but alas, let's stay 15+ years behind the times and use that as a marketing feature while others do it so much better.